Rimehorn talisman

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A crude ornament carved from the horn of a rare arctic beast - so cold to the touch that ice still clings to it. Transforms the user into a rime yak, a hardy ungulate that is highly resistant to cold and whose breath is so frigid that it freezes the walls around itself as it fights. Being so attuned to arctic temperatures also makes it easier for the user to cast Ice magic.

A rimehorn talisman is a talisman that changes you into an icy yak.

Useful Info

When Put on, a rimehorn talisman turns you into Yak Form, which lasts until you end the form. Entering a form takes 4 turns and exiting it takes 5.

Yak Form has the following effects:

Offensive traits

• Unarmed Combat: 7 base damage
• Attacking enemies next to walls creates frigid walls next to the target, which deal cold damage to adjacent enemies each turn (similarly to Frozen Ramparts).
  • Frigid wall damage scales from 2d12 per turn at minimum shapeshifting skill to 2d18 at maximum skill.
• Aid to Ice Magic: The raw failure rate of Ice Magic is reduced by x66.6% (equivalent to going from 0 -> 2 levels of wizardry, stacking independently with wizardry).

Defensive traits

• +15% Hitpoints
• Your size is large
• Cold resistance 2 (rC++)
• Fire vulnerability (rF-)
• Innate AC: +6-12 AC, scaling with shapeshifting skill
• Amphibious

Restrictions

• Melded Gear: All weapons and armor
• Suppressed mutations: Anatomy

Yak Form has a minimum Shapeshifting skill of 8, below which you get an HP penalty. Maximum skill is 14.

Strategy

Rime Yak Form	Gargoyle

History

• Rimehorn talismans will be added in 0.33.